About the Authors
- Keunsub Lee
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Affiliations Center for Plant Transformation, Plant Sciences Institute, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Xiaoqiu Huang
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Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Chichun Yang
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Affiliations Center for Plant Transformation, Plant Sciences Institute, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Danny Lee
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Affiliation Scientific Research, Illumina Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Vincent Ho
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Affiliation Scientific Research, Illumina Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Kan Nobuta
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Affiliation Scientific Research, Illumina Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Jian-Bing Fan
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Affiliation Scientific Research, Illumina Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
- Kan Wang
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* E-mail: kanwang@iastate.edu
Affiliations Center for Plant Transformation, Plant Sciences Institute, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Competing Interests
DL, VH, KN and JBF are employees of Illumina, Inc. The study used the RNA-seq products developed at Illumina. However, this does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KW KL. Performed the experiments: KL CY DL VH KN. Analyzed the data: KL XH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KW JBF XH. Wrote the paper: KL KW. Wrote script used in analysis: XH.